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...nationwide general strike. Some of these attacks bore a strong flavor of retribution. Fifty-two-year-old Kiran Basnet, the colonel shot in the chest and head outside his home, had been earmarked to take charge of the army's anti-Maoist battalion. Ex-Home Minister Devendra Raj Kandel, shot and wounded last Friday, was noted for offering cash for the heads of dead guerrillas. As for Finance Minister Prakash Chandra Lohani, whose mansion was set on fire, he had the simple misfortune of having been a government negotiator in the failed peace talks...
Last week Carlsson, 77, a professor emeritus at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, finally won a Nobel. Sharing the prize for Physiology or Medicine with him were Columbia University's Eric Kandel, 70, who laid bare the molecular foundations of learning and memory, and Rockefeller University's Paul Greengard, 74, who elucidated the chemical cascade touched off by dopamine and other neurotransmitters. In each case, the Nobel was surely long overdue and richly deserved...
...nerves in the brain can't communicate with one another, physical as well as psychiatric problems can arise. Carlsson and Greengard were instrumental in identifying the role of dopamine (a key brain chemical) as a transmitter, a discovery that has led to new treatments for Parkinson's and schizophrenia. Kandel's research showed that changing the speed of inner-brain transmissions can have profound effects on both short- and long-term memory...
...Arvid Carlsson (Sweden), Paul Greengard (United States), Eric Kandel (United States...
...authors of The Bell Curve, their controversial study of IQ and race. Beyond that, the very concept of intelligence is slippery. It involves many qualities--some of them elusive, like creativity, others more clear-cut like the ability to solve problems. "This is a very important study," says Eric Kandel, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia University, but he goes on to sound a polite note of caution. "Intelligence involves many genes, many features," he adds. "There are many things that go into...